Anna presented the work “Engineering Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Angiogenic Therapies” at the THIRD WORKSHOP ON NANOMEDICINE, UABCEI, Laura González presented the poster “EVALUATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AND THE MODEL ORGANISM Caenorhabditis elegans” and Simining Yu presented the poster “BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN MODIFIES THE INTERACTION OF SPIONS WITH BREAST CANCER CELLS”
Nerea Murillo-Cremaes will defend her PhD thesis entitled:
MULTIFUNCTIONAL SILICA-BASED NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Concha Domingo and Dr. Anna Roig.
The thesis jury will be formed by Prof Daniel Ruiz-Molina, Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia, Nanosfun Group, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Prof Vadim Kessler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Sweden and Prof Julio San Román, Biomaterials Group, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Polimeros (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
This thesis aimed to fabricate hybrid (organic-inorganic) complex materials as drug carriers using supercritical fluids. For that purpose, two main objectives have been addressed: first, evaluation of the potentiality of porous silica-based materials synthesized without using porogenic agents as drug delivery systems; and second, exploiting the utility of SCFs in the synthesis and functionalization of those materials. During the realization of this work, silica-based nanostructured materials have been synthesized, loaded with a model drug, physical and chemically modified on their surface, and their interaction with relevant biological entities and media were investigated.
Anna Laromaine has been invited as a young researcher at the South China University of Technology. She will give some lectures at the South China University of Technology and Yunnan University, School of Chemical Science and Technology in November 2014.
Anna will give a lecture in the “Advances in Materials” seminar series at the Institute of Materials of the
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Engineering Iron Oxide Nanoparticles towards Clinical Applications Anna Roig Materials Science Institute of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain Monday, October 27, 2014, in lecture hall MX F1 at 1:15 pm
Abstract: Iron oxide nanoparticles are becoming an important class of materials in nanomedicine. They can be used for imaging as contrast agents in MRI as well as for therapeutical purposes and are FDA approved. The talk will start with a brief introduction to iron oxide nanoparticles, a description of the characteristics that make them attractive in the health sector and some of their recently reported biomedical applications. It will then be followed by the workflow we have undertaken to validate in-house synthesized magnetic nanoparticles and nanocapsules to promote angiogenesis as a brain neurorepair therapy after stroke.(1,2)
1) Rapid synthesis of water-dispersable SPIONs by microwave assisted route for safe labeling of endothelial progenitor cells, ActaBiomaterialia2014, 10, 3775. 2) In vitro Angiogenic Performance and in vivo Brain Targeting of Magnetized Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Neurorepair Therapies, Nanomedicine2014, 10, 225
Prof B. Fernández van Raap from the Instituto de Fisica de La Plata (IFLP) Argentina visits us for two weeks. Her research interests are mainly focused on the synthesis and development of new nanomediators and nanocarriers for magnetic hyperthermia and drug delivery applications.
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